Parliamentary Mea-SURES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 186, 13 July 1883, Page 3

Parliamentary MeaSURES.

THE AUCTIONEER'S BILL.

; |[Hon. Mb Dick.] This Bill consolidates and amends the law relating to auctioneers, and provides that no unlicensed person is to act as an auctioneer, and describes the process of licensing. The Bill embraces all licenses existing at the coming into force of the Act. Licenses to extend over the whole colony, and partners are to take out separate licenses, except wher* only certain members of a firm intend to act as auctioneers. No publican or uncertificate bankrupd ,is eligible for a license. All auctions are to be conducted by daylight, .except m the case of open-air sales, vhich may continue an hour after sunset. Account sales are to be rendered within seven days. No music or riotous conduct is to be allowed m an auction room. A penalty of not less than £20, or more than £100, is to be inflicted on any one pretending to be an auctioneer ; and a penalty, not exceeding £50, is to be inflicted for lending or hiring alicense The Bill does not apply to sales made bj order of the Governor, or by any Collector or any Sub»Collector of Customs, nor to any judgement sale or pound sales, nor to sales maSe at a bazaar, when the property disposed of is for a religious or charitable object. Illegal sales prior to the coming into force of this Bill are not validated. LATE CABLE MESSAGES. THE A NNEXATION QUESTION. ANNEXATION ULTIMATELY INEVITABLE. THE PLAGUE EPIDEMIC. BREAKING QUARANTINE. OBY EEECTBIO TEDBaBAPH. — COPYRIGHT. ) 'beuter's tblegbams.) London, July 12. In the House of Lords last night, Earl Carnarvon referring m the course of his speech to the proposed am exation of New Guinea, strongly urged the Government to accede to the request of the Australian Colonies, and declared that annexation of the island by Great .^[ Britain would ultimately be inevitable. j* Sydney, July 12. Latest advices fo hand from Fiji ieport that on the 30th ult. a number of Bailors and Cooleys who were detained m quarantine at Suva, succeeded m effecting their escape. All, however, were recaptured, and had no communU cation with the TVativflH of the Island,